Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sanь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śāˀnos, *śāˀnis. Cognate with Latvian sãns (“side”), Latgalian sõns (“side, flank”) Lithuanian šónas (“side, flank”).

Noun

*sanь f

1. sleigh, sledge

Inflection

Declension of *sanь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sanь	*sani	*sani
genitive	*sani	*sanьju, *saňu*	*sanьjь, *sani*
dative	*sani	*sanьma	*sanьmъ
accusative	*sanь	*sani	*sani
instrumental	*sanьjǫ, *saňǫ*	*sanьma	*sanьmi
locative	*sani	*sanьju, *saňu*	*sanьxъ
vocative	*sani	*sani	*sani

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

From *sani (plural):

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сань (sanĭ)
    • Belarusian: са́ні (sáni)
    • Russian: са́ни (sáni)
      • → Ingrian: saani
      • → Kildin Sami: соа̄нн (såånn)
    • Ukrainian: са́ни (sány)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: санка (sanka)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: са̏оне

    Latin script: sȁone

  • Slovene: sanī (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sáni (sáně, saně)
    • Czech: sáně, saně
  • Old Polish: sani
    • Polish: sanie
  • Slovak: sane
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: sańe
    • Upper Sorbian: sanje

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сань (sanĭ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: сань (sanĭ) (Russian recension)
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: са́нка (sánka) (diminutive)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: san
    • Czech: saň
  • Polish: sań

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*sanь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 443
• Menges, Karl Heinrich (1969) “On the Etymology of Slav. sani, Ural. *śona, Alt. čana “sledge””, in Orientalia Suecana‎^[1], volume 18, pages 153–162
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “са́ни”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress